guides these days, Tom Sadler likes to boost his clients’ chances of catching trout by having them fish with two flies instead of one. He sets them up with the kind of rig known as dry dropper: one ...

A dry dropper is a two-fly rig that combines a dry fly and either a nymph or emerger, allowing you to fish on the surface and subsurface at the same time. If you’re fishing shallow water but not ...

Selecting a bait for trout isn’t rocket science. They like garden worms, mealworms, wax worms, and nightcrawlers. Salmon eggs score big, as do all of the synthetic dough baits on the market these days ...

I’m not suggesting you drift a pair of dry flies through fast water or stained water. The double dry rig works best when fishing slow, clear water that offers the potential for rising fish – if you ...

The water is high. Conditions are rough. Anglers still wanting to fish are dredging flies down deep to locate trout that still have to eat. The best way to get to the fish and double your chances for ...

Even with winds gusting and seas running 3 to 5 feet, my fishing team, my cameraman and I fought our way out to the wells in Breton Sound on Thursday, and absolutely tore up the speckled trout. In ...

Fly fishing for trophy Lahontan cutthroat trout is in full swing right now at Pyramid Lake. If you haven't tried fishing Pyramid yet this year, it's time. Given the cool spring this year, the fishing ...

This story, “It Takes a Grampus,” appeared in the August 1950 issue of Outdoor Life. Did you ever buck a first-class, big­ scale, full-blown jinx in a choice piece of trout country? Ever fish streams ...

Two-fly nymph rigs and dry dropper rigs can be found on every trout river in America – if you want to try something a little less mainstream, break out the double dry rig. I know – trout do more than ...